019 - Hunter Valley Manuscript - July 1833

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Description(019.jpg) Recto State of agriculture is already so depressed that it is with the utmost difficulty settlers can obtain a subsistence - if funds are required to be raised why levy a poll tax and why throw the onus of payment on a part of the community least capable of bearing it - The great evil arising from the present [incarures] adopted towards the convict population is that a system has been introduced founded on a maudlin sensibility for the sufferings of prisoners, prosecuting a due severity being used towards the reprobates for misconduct, and on the other hand depriving the more useful class of the benefits to which their good conduct fairly entitles them - If there is any occasion for punishment, it should be severe, then its severity alone would restrain the master from imposing it, and teach the culprits to avoid offence, but above all things let a bonus be held out for good conduct, and suffer those who have extracted their former guilt, by subsequent good conduct to return within the pale of society, and by degrees to recover that standing in life which their talents or industry may attain - The female prisoners taken as a class are by far the most depraved, and yet there is no adequate punishment for them, the worth they can receive is solitary confinement, they are most commonly sent to the 3rd class of the factory which in itself is not a punishment, for altho they are compelled to work, they there meet with old friends and acquaintances, who share all they possess in common - Most of them have [section omitted] doors, who supply their wants - those who are destitute of such friends participate in all things with the others who are more fortunate - SubjectNew South Wales historyNSWHunter ValleySettlerAustralian historyMaitlandAustraliaDatenot specifiedSourcehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/2665502753/

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